Pollus Brodeur
SQL Server Expert at Autorité des marchés financiers (Québec)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPollus Brodeur is a SQL Server expert and seasoned DBA with two decades of hands-on experience driving large-scale migrations, consolidation and automation for major Canadian institutions from Desjardins to the Autorité des marchés financiers. He specializes in SQL Server upgrades, high-availability architectures (AlwaysOn, clustering), Kerberos/ delegation and private cloud consolidation, and has repeatedly delivered migration strategies that minimize downtime and simplify future moves. Pollus built a widely used PowerShell-driven database refresh tool at CCQ that scaled a single workflow from 99 production to 891 non-production databases and was highlighted in the organization’s annual report. An active contributor to the popular dbatools project, he has added and refined PowerShell functions to export SQL configurations and improve automation reliability. Based in Montreal, he combines deep operational rigor with pragmatic scripting and integration skills, often bridging DBA tasks with CI/CD and infrastructure automation. Colleagues rely on him for practical, repeatable solutions that turn complex legacy environments into manageable, auditable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Collège de MontréalSeulement le tronc commun, Seulement le tronc commun at Université de Montréal - HEC MontréalBAC, Informatique de Gestion, BAC, Informatique de Gestion at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
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Github Skills (11)
powershell10
sql-server10
sql10
mssql10
database9
databases9
migration7
backup7
audit6
linux6
filepermissions6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 41 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Pollus primarily contributed to database-related tasks within the dbatools repository, a PowerShell module for SQL Server automation. The commits show the user working on the `Export-DbaSpConfigure` function, implementing and modifying SQL Server configuration export functionalities. They also addressed issues related to drive space calculation, database file retrieval, and corrected typos in database-related scripts. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of SQL Server administration and PowerShell scripting.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
pollusb/dbatools
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
PowerShell module to help dbas be more productive
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
powershellpowershell-moduleproductive
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